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Liberal politicians have not been strangers to political scandal. The last Liberal Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, will always be associated with the sale of political honours. A former party leader, Jeremy Thorpe, had to resign office amidst an alleged murder plot against a stable boy and former male model and which culminated in the wrongful assassination of a Great Dane called Rinka.

Following these precedents, the case of Chris Huhne and the allegation that, driving back from Stansted Airport in 2003, he passed on a speeding offence to his then wife, Vicky Pryce, seems like a mundane affair. Mr